{UAH} STATEMENT ON MUSEVENI'S UTTERANCE TO THE JUDICIARY

My fellow Ugandans,

I read in the news Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni claiming in a speech to the judiciary yesterday that "Idi Amin never ruled me even for one day. He took over on 25th January 1971. I looked for transport on the 26th, and left Uganda on the 27th."

I think Museveni needs to grow up in some area's. He has repeated this several times before as if it is something important to anyone. Sincerely, for a parent, doesn't this sound like the grumblings of a disgruntled kid sincerely?

Meanwhile, let us put the record straight. Ugandans all know that on that specific day, my father General Idi Amin deposed dictator Milton Obote and liberated all the jubilating Ugandans who were seen endlessly celebrating their liberation from Obote dictatorship for weeks on end starting from that day. Ugandans (and Museveni himself) could recall the fact that Obote had previously deposed the sitting legitimate president Edward Muteesa in a military coup five years earlier (in 1966) and declared himself president. Didn't Obote, as Prime Minister order the army to attack the sitting President's residence then went on to change the constitution by putting parliament literally at gun point and forcing them to enact his infamous "Pigeon hole constitution", thereby enacting laws that suited himself? He is then said to have sent assassins to murder the exiled legitimate president so as to prevent him from ever returning to his rightful presidential seat in Uganda. Obote, the person who then said "A good Muganda is a dead one", had he been elected by the Ugandan people to become president after Edward Muteesa? Didn't he also then abduct and imprison all his political opponents then claimed to soon organize elections which in reality he never did, and never actually planned on holding but just simply lied to Ugandans endlessly? As a person who was office assistant in that illegitimate Obote presidency in 1971 and as a person who claims to know more about good governance than anyone in the region, I thought Museveni would be aware of that dark Obote legacy and Obote's dictatorial behaviour better than I, and would have therefore never tried to bring him back in 1980 with the bloody economic consequences to Uganda, and the harrowing human cost that we all know took place in Luweero where Obote and Museveni slaughtered over 500,000 innocent Ugandan civilians for power, and the skeletal remains of these poor victims are there to this day for the world to see.

Meanwhile, this Museveni statement about Amin never having ruled over him, how does it help Uganda achieve middle income status today? How does it contribute to the prosperity of the impoverished rural Ugandans waiting for rural electrification, access to clean water, quality education, adequate health services, tarmacked roads and information technology that would enable them get useful information to improve their livelihoods? How does it help end corruption in Uganda where a brand new Jinja bridge completed just last year at millions of dollars of national debt, that bridge is already crumbling over the weekend because it was possibly built cheaply as they might have had to pay some of the budgeted funds as cash bribes to Musevenism as is common knowledge. How does anyone expect the people of Uganda to thank them for building anything in this country when the people know that officials have already thanked themselves with cash under the table.

What might be beneficial is if Museveni could discuss how his Congolese muzukulu (grandson)whom he educated and raised here in Uganda, former rebel and then president Joseph Kabila, after 18 years in power, has just made history in regional good governance by conducting the first ever peaceful transition of power in his country ever. A handover from a ruling party military leader to a civilian opposition leader elected by the people of Congo. Leaving the army now to serve a new commander in chief chosen by the people of Congo. And therefore an army that now becomes truely national in character, rather than someones rebel group masquerading as a national army. This important feat regarding peaceful transfer of power is something that Congo had failed to achieve since the gruesome murder by a CIA and Belgium murder squad on 17th January 1961 of legendary African independence hero and elected Congolese Prime Minister Patrice LumumbaI (RIP).

So the people of Uganda are now probably wondering what does Museveni, an outgoing octogenarian that is still grumbling on childish non-issues, what does he have to say about that recent Congo political achievement instead, and what vision comes to his mind as to what is required for Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda-Burundi to ever achieve this golden political milestone as a sign of a Great Lakes region that would have attained the minimum respectable level of robust institutional governance, political decency, and diplomatic maturity that would guarantee a strong culture of democratic political civility and long term political and socio-economic transformation for the better, where there is no room for fraudulent clingers anymore with their secret vote-tallying centers and parasitic constitutional amendments to prolong individuals stay as presidents while masquerading as democratic rulers?

These are deep governance behavioral concerns that remain unresolved here and in several African countries today.

In my view that would be a more meaningful discussion to have at this particular point in time rather than fighting to the death against a young local reggae musician who has not committed any crime against anyone, not even harmed a butterfly in his entire ghetto life.

Now come and beat me.

Lumumba Hussein Amin

29th January 2019

Kampala, Uganda

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